As per Google, a sitemap can contain a maximum of 50000 URLs with a maximum size of 50 MB (Uncompressed). If you have a bigger website having thousands of URLs, you may require to exclude image URLs from the sitemap to fit the validation or you need to breakdown the list in multiple sitemaps. SEOs may want sometimes to focus only on crawling pages and not the images. It’s because Google automatically indexes images when it indexes the pages. And thus, …

GZIP compression is a standard method to compress files for faster webpage loading. When a visitor visits the site, the server is called to deliver the requested files. If these files are larger in the size, it causes a higher load time. Bigger the file, longer it takes to display the result to the visitor. With GZIP compression, the files are compressed before sending them to the browser, resulting in reducing the load time. According to GTmetrix, GZIP compression reduces …

Cyber Monday 2019 became the biggest U.S. online shopping day ever with over 9.4 billion U.S. dollars in online spending. – Statista You would want to make the most out of such a huge number (as much as you can!), isn’t it? And, for that, you would want to make sure that your store is not only optimized to host this enormous traffic but is also strategically up to the mark to attract more sales. The holidays bring a dramatic …

The tutorial includes the stepwise method to deploy static content in Magento 2. Trace the static view files in the static directory of your Magento 2 store at your Magento install dir>/pub/static. Some files are also cached in the Magento install dir>/var/view_preprocessed directory. One needs to write static view files manually to the file system of the Magento 2 store with CLI command. After running the CLI command, restrict permissions to limit vulnerabilities as well as for the prevention of malicious overwriting …

Patience is a virtue of eons ago. Everything has to happen NOW! Google is obsessed with speed and hence decided to include site speed as one of their signals for the ranking algorithms. Visually appealing designs, seamless checkout, and attractive offers aren’t enough anymore for Magento 2 websites! Check what Jeremy Wagner has to say about performance and speed: COOK increased conversions by 7%, decreased bounce rates by 7%, and increased pages per session by 10% when they reduced average page load …